Sports Trivia Questions

✅ Five

✅ Nine

💡 There’s no clock in baseball, so a tied game after nine innings just keeps going into extra innings.

✅ Six

✅ Pentagon

💡 Home plate measures 17 inches across the front edge — the same width used to define the strike zone.

✅ 18

✅ Love

✅ Three

💡 Each period runs 20 minutes of game clock, which adds up to 60 minutes of regulation hockey.

✅ 18 inches

✅ Three minutes

💡 Fighters get a one-minute rest between rounds, so a full 12-round title fight runs well past 45 minutes.

✅ Eleven

✅ Three

✅ Hat trick

💡 The phrase comes from cricket — legend has it a bowler who took three wickets on three straight balls earned a new hat.

✅ Birdie

✅ Three

✅ 100 yards

💡 Add both end zones and the full field runs 120 yards from end line to end line.

✅ Green Bay Packers

💡 It aired on CBS and NBC at the same time — and somehow no complete recording of either broadcast survives.

✅ Tom Brady

✅ Denver Broncos

✅ New York Giants

💡 The loss kept the Patriots from closing out a perfect 19-0 season.

✅ New England Patriots

💡 It was the first Super Bowl in history to be decided in overtime.

✅ San Francisco 49ers

✅ Green Bay Packers

✅ Miami Dolphins

✅ Chicago Bulls

✅ Detroit Pistons

✅ Golden State Warriors

💡 It was the first time any team had come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the NBA Finals.

✅ Magic Johnson

✅ Shaquille O’Neal

💡 He’s one of only a handful of players to win championships with two different franchises.

✅ Wilt Chamberlain

💡 The game was played in Hershey, Pennsylvania, against the New York Knicks.

✅ Utah Jazz

✅ St. Louis Cardinals

💡 That same postseason, Boston became the first team in MLB history to win a best-of-seven series after trailing three games to none, doing it to the rival Yankees in the ALCS.

✅ Roger Maris

💡 Maris played for the same New York Yankees franchise Ruth did when Ruth hit 60 home runs back in 1927.

✅ Hank Aaron

✅ Four

✅ Chicago Cubs

💡 The Cubs rallied from down three games to one, and the deciding Game 7 went to extra innings.

✅ Six

✅ Stanley Cup

✅ United States

💡 That U.S. squad, made up of college and amateur players, clinched the gold medal two days later by beating Finland.

✅ Wayne Gretzky

💡 The NHL retired his number 99 league-wide, the only number ever honored across every team.

✅ Army-Navy Game

✅ John Wooden

💡 His UCLA teams once won 88 straight games — a streak that ran from 1971 all the way to 1974.

✅ French Open

✅ Wimbledon

✅ The Masters

✅ Jack Nicklaus

✅ Brazil

✅ Beijing

✅ United States

✅ South Africa

✅ Uruguay

💡 Uruguay beat rival Argentina 4-2 in the final, played at a brand-new stadium built for the tournament in Montevideo.

✅ Brazil

✅ France

💡 It was France’s second World Cup title, after also winning as hosts in 1998.

✅ Muhammad Ali

💡 Ali had won his own Olympic gold medal decades earlier, boxing as a light heavyweight at the 1960 Rome Games under his birth name, Cassius Clay.

✅ Michael Phelps

💡 He broke the previous record of seven gold medals at one Olympics, set by Mark Spitz back in 1972.

✅ Norway